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grain. A ridge of quartz rocks strikes up through, 
the sand. The rocky hills are mostly granite. The 
atmosphere was cooled by an easterly wind. We 
pitched tent, or rather halted, at a cluster of vil- 
lages of considerable size, the principal of which is 
Gnddemuni. They are all placed on hills. In the 
deep valley near is a large lake, towards the east, 
about two hours long and half-an-hour wide. In 
the dry season the people cultivate, by irrigation 
from the lake, a quantity of wheat, which they ex- 
port to Kanou. Besides wheat, they raise ghaseb 
on the hill tops ; and in the gardens, cotton, indigo, 
tobacco, onions, pepper, dates (bearing twice a-year), 
henna, potatoes (dankali), the palm (geginya), — bear- 
ing a large fruit (gonda), like the mealy melon, — 
gourds, rogo, and gwaza ; which last are two species 
of potatoes. Some large trees are planted like the 
kuka, the fruit of which is used for sauce. 
To-day the Kashalla rode up to several men 
wandering in the fields, hunting, and attempted to 
impose some labour on them. This was a signal 
for a general stoppage of all foot-passengers, who 
were met by his people, for one purpose or another, 
either to take from them any little articles, or to 
vex them. They did not, however, stop two people 
we met, but gave them full leave to pass. Who 
were these? One was a man who, by disease, had 
become all over of a light flesh-colour, his black 
skin peeling off. It was a perfect phenomenon — a 
man with strong negro features, entirely white, or of 
